(NOTE:
List of names of appointed to 2010 Medjugorje Commission at bottom or article.)

Recently reliable news
agencies such as “Reuters” are reporting yet a
fourth
commission will now investigate the Medjugorje apparitions. The question
we all have to ask is, why three previous commissions have failed and
what if anything will make the fourth investigation
different from the others?

In 06, declassified U.S.
State Department documents through the “Freedom of Information Act” and
a seven year investigation produced my book “Medjugorje Investigated.”
Findings of my research set me on a mission seeking a full, proper and
honest investigation of Medjugorje. I knew such an investigation could
not include the usual process by the local bishop of Mostar nor the
Bosnian Conference of Bishop.

These past years I have
written a number of articles published online and sent to Vatican, Rome.
I detailed why any commission under the guidance of the Bishop of Mostar
or the Bosnian Conference of Bishops, would result in a tainted, bias,
negative declaration concluding the Medjugorje apparitions “are not
supernatural in nature."

Truth be known, many clergy
are tired of apparitions sent to the laity. They want
apparitions to stop because they don't believe in them. This is noted in
a U.S. State Department document written by Bishop Pavao Zanic. Zanic
headed the first tainted Medjugorje commission made up of unbelievers.

Overall negative thinking of
apparitions can be applied to an ongoing battle between traditionalism
and modernism within the church. There are grave divisions among clergy
in these troubled times. Some say the discords on such
spiritual issues are the likes not seen since the spilt of the church
during the time of King Henry VIII.

The long and short is, making
apparitions go away are just a small part of many agendas which some say
attempts to lead the church away from its roots to worship the creator,
in favor of honoring the creature.

So, the first Medjugorje
commission conducted by bishop Pavo Zanic (now deceased) was purposely
tainted with unbelievers. Zanic and other clergy members wanted the
Medjugorje apparition’s declared false. The U.S. Ambassador to
Yugoslavia (David Anderson) discovered this fact. Anderson acted by
sending a letter (called an AirGram) to Vatican, Rome. In this AirGram
Anderson stated the first Medjugorje commission was tainted with bias.
This is why the findings of the first commission were not acceptable.

The second commission was
disbanded. This in part is the result of civil war in what was once
Yugoslavia. When Bosnia and Herzegovina gained independence from
Yugoslavia in the 1990’s, they became independent States. The Catholic
Church having no formal written agreements for Catholic rights with
these newly formed governments, discontinued the second Medjugorje
investigation without finding.

The July 06 announcement by
Cardinal Vinko Puljic (head of the Bosnian Conference of Bishops) of a
third commission came one month after my book was on Medjugorje
shelves." I continued my campaign strongly suggesting a commission under
the direction of the Bosnia Conference of Bishops would result in the
same conclusion as the first commission conducted by Bishop Zanic. I say
this boldly because a U.S. State Department document proves members of
the Bosnian Conference of Bishops openly and publicly admitted they do
not believe in the Medjugorje apparitions. These Bishops released their
negative bias opinions freely, even prior to the first investigation of
the Medjugorje apparitions.

Last year current Bishop of
Mostar-Duvno, (Bishop Ratko Peric) whose jurisdiction covers the
Medjugorje St. James parish, slammed a hammer down on many aspects of
the Medjugorje community, visionaries, parish priests and pilgrims.
Examples, Medjugorje visionary Mirjana is no longer allowed to have her
apparitions at Community Cenacolo. St. James Parish is no longer allowed
to issue the monthly "Press Bulletin.” In the past, Peric spoke openly
against the apparitions in St. James parish in Medjugorje. Peric even
wrote a book where he dedicates pages against the Medjugorje
apparitions, clergy and pilgrims who go there.

Bishop Peric’s heavy handedness
against the apparitions do not follow church rule. During the
investigation of an apparition, complete SILENCE is the order of the
day. Bishop Peric has been anything but silent.

On Wednesday Oct. 7, 2009,
Adam Tanner bureau chief for Reuters in the Balkans, reported Cardinal
Vinko Pujjic (head of the Bosnia Conference of Bishops) said the Vatican
may soon issue firmer guidance for Catholics on the claim that the
Virgin Mary has been visiting Medjugorje. Pujjic said, “We are now
awaiting a new directive on this issue,”“I don’t think we must
wait for a long time, I think it will be this year, but that is not
clear… I am going to Rome in November and we must
discuss this.”

Cardinal Pujjic stated the
Vatican will issue firmer guidelines for Catholic’s in regard to
Medjugorje but instead the Vatican announced a new forth independent
commission. This tells us Pujjic spoke out of turn to Adam Tanner from
Reuters News. This should also tell us the third Medjugorje commission
was also tainted with negative bias as was the first commission.

Announcement of the forth
independent commission may also suggest cardinal Pujjic, (though he is
now listed as one of the members of the new Medjugorje Commission formed
in March 2010,) bishop Peric’s
and other members of the Bosnian Conference of Bishops simply appear to
refuse the possibility that the Virgin Mary could be appearing in
Medjugorje. Like other priests, they may no longer believe in apparitions and want them to
stop. Public outspokenness by clergy against or for the Medjugorje apparitions
while the apparitions are under investigation is again a violation of
Church procedure. Again, SILENCE is the order of the
day until a proper formal decision is publicly issued by a
Church appointed commission. Failure to remain silent and
follow Church procedure is the reason the third
commission now ultimately fails and a fourth
independent commission is created.

With formation of this
fourth commission, for the first time in the history of
the church the “Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith,” will take
away due process and control from a local bishop and entire members of
the local Conference of
Bishops. In their place, the Church’s top doctrinal
body will host an international commission of inquiry headed by Italian
cardinal Camillo Ruini. The commission is said to be made up of
theological and scientific experts.

Medjugorje in a nutshell is
simple to see and easy to understand. Nearly 29 years of apparitions,
countless positive testimonies of pilgrims and visionaries that remain
faithful, truly shows the fruits of Our Lady in Medjugorje.

Scripture says, “Satan can
not cast out Satan,” which tells us if Medjugorje is the work of Satan
bringing people back to God, Satan is divided against himself. So the
good works of Medjugorje are exactly that, the results of God’s good
works. Today millions still flock to this holy ground in Herzegovina. In
the end of ends, regardless of believers, or non believers or
the final outcome of the apparitions, the simple truth is, the proof of
Medjugorje is in the pudding.

Note: U.S. State Department documents about
Medjugorje exist because the Reagan Administration instructed U.S.
Ambassador to Yugoslavia (David Anderson) to investigate claims of the
apparitions.

Note: State Department documents from the
book, “Medjugorje Investigated” published by Devotions and available
online at the “Medjugorje USA” website.

If you would like to read an
extended Biography of the 4th Medjugorje Commission listed below

• Jozef
cardinal Tomko – Slovakia.
President Emeritus of the Pontifical Committee for International Eucharistic
Congresses. Former Prefect of the Congregation for the Evangelization of Peoples
• Julian cardinal Herranz
Casado – Spain. President
Emeritus of the Pontifical Council for Legislative Texts
• Josip cardinal Bozanic
– Croatia. Archbishop of Zagreb
• Vinko cardinal Puljic
– Bosnia & Herzegovina.
Archbishop of Vrhbosna (Sarajevo)
• Archbishop Angelo Amato
– Italy. Prefect of the Congregation for
the Causes of Saints
• Fr David-Maria Jaeger
– Israel. A Franciscan priest, expert in
canon law and a convert to Christianity.
• Fr Salvatore Perrella
– Italy. A Marianist priest and lecturer
at the Pontifical faculty of Marian Theology.
• Fr Pierangelo Sequeri
– Italy. One of Italy’s most prominent
theologians and appointed last year by Benedict XVI to serve on the
International Theological Commission.
• Fr Zdzislaw Josef Kijas
– Poland. Another Franciscan and
Secretary of the Pontifical Academy of Mary Immaculate in Rome.
• Msgr Tony Anatrella
– France. Psychologist and Mariologist,
and a consultant to the Pontifical Council for the Family, and of the Pontifical
Council for Health Care Ministry.
• Msgr Franjo Topic
– Croatia. President of the Croatian
Cultural Society ‘Progress’ in Sarajevo.
• Fr Mijo Nikic –
Croatia. Superior of the Jesuit Order in
Zagreb and a professor of religious psychology.
• Fr Mihaly Szentmartoni
– Serbia. Another Jesuit and a director
of the Spirituality Institute at Rome’s Gregorian University. As a professor of
clinical psychiatry he served on the medical committee of the previous
Commission undertaken by the former Yugoslavia Bishops Conference. The medical
committee of six concluded in 1988 that according to the criteria laid down by
the CDF in 1978, the six ‘visionaries’ were considered mentally balanced and
showed no inclination to psychotic disorder or hysteria, or other phenomenon of
this kind.
• Sr Nela Veronica Gaspar
– Bosnia & Herzegovina. Theologian
• Achim Schütz –
Germany. Expert on religious phenomenon.
• Msgr Krzysztof Nykiel
– Poland. Served on the Pontifical
Council for Health Pastoral Care.